Jim Williams eBooks

In this companion text to Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science, and Personalities, seventeen contributors present more tutorial, historical, and editorial viewpoints on subjects related to analog circuit design. By presenting divergent methods and views of people who have achieved some measure of success in their field, the book encourages readers to develop their own approach to design. In addition, the essays and anecdotes give some constructive guidance in areas not usually covered in engineering courses, such as marketing and career development. *Includes visualizing operation of analog circuits*Describes troubleshooting for optimum circuit performance*Demonstrates how to produce a saleable product...

Analog circuit design is a very personalized discipline. To be sure, everyone's bound by the same physics and mathematics, but there is no single right way for those tools to be applied to solve a problem. Practitioners of analog design are noted for their individuality. Three of the four introductions that follow are by acknowledged masters of the analog art and deal with analog's place in a world that seems overwhelmed by digital electronics. Each of those three authors gives a highly personal viewpoint that can't be objectively proven right or wrong, but that is the way it is in many aspects of analog design. The remaining introduction, which appears first, does not directly deal with analog electronics at all. However, it does illustrate the matr...